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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Asian/American Studies Collective Winter Speakers Series
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82289262845 \nThe Asian/American Studies Collective is excited to announce our winter speakers series\, which features an exciting lineup of scholars from across the UCSB campus. For each talk\, an invited speaker will share their current research during the first hour and the second hour will be explicitly dedicated to creating space to allow graduate students to ask questions related to research and professionalization. \nOur first speaker is Dr. Simi Kang\, a queer\, mixed Sikh American community advocate\, educator\, artist\, and scholar. Kang’s work centers Southeast Asian American collaborative resistance to imagine environmentally and economically just futures in Louisiana. Kang is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies. \nAbstract: Every year\, multiple times a year\, Southeast Louisiana’s coast-dependent communities must make the impossible decision to remain in an environmental sacrifice zone or leave home with no resources. This is particularly true for Vietnamese American and other BIPOC coast-dependent communities\, whose livelihoods are tied to place and whose lives are targeted by environmental extraction. In light of worsening storm seasons and rampant land loss\, my collaborators are called “disaster refugees” or “climate migrants” even before they are forced from home. Although the terms identify ‘natural’ processes as the problem\, the Vietnamese American fisherfolk I work with know better: the oil leases\, the refineries\, the dead zones make the land slide into the ocean and the storms rage\, not the ‘environment.’ This talk considers how the term “climate migrant” functions in environmental policy and politics\, ultimately asking how we can more clearly articulate undesirable movements from home as the result of environmental sacrifice. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Department of Asian American Studies \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82289262845
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/asian-american-studies-collective-winter-speakers-series-simi-kang/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T153000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Panel: Sex Work in the Time of Covid
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThis panel will bring together the insight and expertise of three sex worker activists working and organizing in North America and Europe; including Sinnamon Love\, BIPOC Adult Industry Collective\, MF Akynos\, Black Sex Workers’ Collective\, and Chiqui\, Berlin Strippers Collective. It will be the first in a multi-part webinar conversation in 2020-2021 focused on sex work and sexual politics in the time of COVIC in a global frame. \nREGISTER NOW \nCosponsored by the IHC’s New Sexualities Research Focus Group and the MultiCultural Center
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-panel-sex-work-in-the-time-of-covid/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,New Sexualities
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ORGANIZER;CN="New Sexualities RFG":MAILTO:mmilleryoung@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T130000
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Land Grab U: Land-Grant Universities and Indigenous Peoples
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nIn 1862\, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act\, which distributed public domain lands to raise funds for fledgling colleges across the nation. The creation story told around this event is that land-grant universities were given the gift of free land. But the truth is much more complicated: The Morrill Act worked by turning land expropriated from tribal nations into seed money for higher education. In all\, the act redistributed nearly 10.8 million acres from more than 250 tribal nations for the benefit of 52 colleges. Those lands\, when grouped together\, represent an area approximately the size of Denmark. Ahtone and Lee’s presentation will both examine the land specifically used to found the University of California and also discuss the methods employed in this investigation of land expropriation\, in order to reveal the links between violent colonialism and higher education. \nTristan Ahtone is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and is editor-in-chief at the Texas Observer. He has reported for multiple outlets including PBS NewsHour\, National Native News\, NPR\, Al Jazeera America and High Country News\, where he served as Indigenous Affairs editor.  \nRobert Lee is a lecturer in American History at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Indigenous dispossession and U.S. state formation in the nineteenth-century American West. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the IHC American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \nImage Credit: Marty Two Bulls Jr. \nLAND GRAB U: UNIVERSIDADES CON CONCESIÓN DE TIERRAS Y PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS \nEn 1862\, el presidente Abraham Lincoln firmó la Ley Morrill\, que distribuía tierras de dominio público para recaudar fondos para universidades incipientes en todo el país. La historia de la creación que se cuenta en torno a este evento es que las universidades recibieron el regalo de tierras gratis. Pero la verdad es mucho más complicada: la Ley Morrill funcionó al convertir la tierra expropiada a las naciones tribales en capital inicial para la educación superior. En total\, la ley redistribuyó casi 10\,8 millones de acres de más de 250 naciones tribales en beneficio de 52 universidades. Esas tierras\, cuando se agrupan\, representan un área aproximadamente del tamaño de Dinamarca. Ahtone y la presentación de Lee examinará la tierra utilizada específicamente para fundar la Universidad de California y también discutirá los métodos empleados en esta investigación de la expropiación de tierras\, a fin de revelar los vínculos entre el colonialismo violento y la educación superior. \nTristan Ahtone es miembro de la tribu Kiowa y es editor en jefe del Texas Observer. Ha informado para varios medios\, incluidos PBS NewsHour\, National Native News\, NPR\, Al Jazeera America y High Country News\, donde se desempeñó como editor de Asuntos Indígenas.  \nRobert Lee es profesor de Historia Estadounidense en la Universidad de Cambridge. Su investigación se centra en el despojo indígena y la formación del estado estadounidense en el oeste americano del siglo XIX. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y el Grupo de Enfoque de Investigación Colectiva Indígena e Indígena Estadounidense de IHC \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito; Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom \nCrédito de imagen: Marty Two Bulls Jr.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-land-grab-u-land-grant-universities-and-indigenous-peoples/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,All Events,IHC Series,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210125T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210125T180000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Research Focus Group Meeting: Art\, Environment\, and Sense-Making
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED \nAt the last meeting of the Sustainability and the New Human RFG\, Professor Suh discussed sustainability and behavior change. This talk will continue our conversation about the interdependence of humans and the environment by offering an ecological approach to how we understand the arts. At this meeting\, PhD candidate Daniel Martini will share his dissertation research on how aesthetic appreciation (‘sense-making’) can emerge from both the rigidity of universal human cognitive structures and the massive influence of environmental variations. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Colin Gardner. \nThe meeting is open to all but we do ask you to register to attend so that we can spend our time in the meeting as productively as possible. Please register by January 21. After you’ve registered\, you will receive a Zoom invitation as well as a 1\,000-word document introducing the research that we ask that you read before the meeting. Please see the information sheet “Sustainability and the New Human IHC Research Focus Group Meetings” for more information about this and the structure of the meeting. \nDaniel Martini is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature with emphases in Cognitive Science and Translation Studies. Daniel specializes in interdisciplinary research and teaching\, including the fields of cognitive affordance\, memory\, and medical humanities. \nColin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies in Art at UCSB. He works at the intersection of film-philosophy\, Deleuze and Guattari studies and interdisciplinary media theory. Dr. Gardner has also expanded his research into Media Geography. His most recent monograph is “Chaoid Cinema: Deleuze and Guattari and the Topological Vector of Silence.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group \nImage Credit: A still shot from Maurice Lemaître’s Le film est déjà commencé? (1951)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-meeting-art-environment-and-sense-making/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sustainability and the New Human RFG":MAILTO:apetterssonpeeker@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Asian/American Studies Collective Winter Speakers Series
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84178208506 \nThe Asian/American Studies Collective is proud to celebrate the publication of Dr. Diane Fujino’s book\, Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake. \nAbout the book\nWhile critiques of the model minority trope abound\, this work has not dislodged the Nisei\, or second-generation Japanese Americans\, from the label of “Quiet Americans.” Working against the announced politics of Nisei assimilationism\, this talk examines the feminist poetics of Mitsuye Yamada and the transformational “jubilee liberation” ministry of her brother\, Rev. Michael Yasutake. Mitsuye Yamada’s sensitive writings are known for revealing tropes of silence in the lives of Japanese American women\, often through critique of the complicated relationship with her own mother. Michael Yasutake moved from military resistance during World War II\, to counseling draft objector during the Vietnam War\, to explicit opposition to US and Japanese imperialism and support for political prisoners. Through biographical study\, the book reveals Nisei resistance in the 1970s to 1990s (an ostensibly dormant period of Asian American struggle)\, understudied intergenerational continuity\, and a radical lineage of Japanese American activism. \nDiane Fujino is professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her scholarship centers on Asian American and Black liberation struggles and includes books on Yuri Kochiyama\, Richard Aoki\, and the Black Panther Party. She is active with Ethnic Studies Now! Santa Barbara and Cooperation Santa Barbara. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Department of Asian American Studies \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84178208506
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/asian-american-studies-collective-winter-speakers-series-diane-fujino/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210126T202608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T202608Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Cybercrime in Digital India: Jamtara's Youth and OTT Production Cultures
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nContinuing a trend set by Bollywood cinema since the mid-2000s\, small towns and villages in India are being mined for their performative excess\, comic potential\, and cultures of violence by platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Mukherjee traced this trend to Jamtara: Sabka Number Aayega (Jan 2020–)\, an over-the-top (OTT) crime drama from Netflix/Tipping Point that portrays real-life mobile phone phishing scams conducted by teenagers in the state of Jharkhand. The reliance on concept development based on localized research within an OTT production culture ensured that the innovative story and subject matter of Jamtara intrigued audiences. However\, the later episodes\, instead of focusing on the forensic and infrastructural intricacies of phishing\, depicted gratuitous violence instigated by a local politician figure. The theme of cybercrime provided Jamtara a way to inflect earlier registers of crime with discourses around digitality and social mobility\, but the show succumbed to representing physical violence. \nRahul Mukherjee is Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies at University of Pennsylvania. His research on environmental media and mobile phone cultures has been published in his recent monograph Radiant Infrastructures: Media\, Environment\, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Duke University Press\, 2020) and in journals such as Media\, Culture\, and Society and Asiascape: Digital Asia. \nATTEND DISCUSSION \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-cybercrime-in-digital-india-jamtaras-youth-and-ott-production-cultures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T133000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210126T174644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T195230Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Shifting Paradigms Around Neurodiversity
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82480745298?pwd=a3RkcUVKaWJoN0dEUkZPQjFQWVN1dz09 \nThis discussion will focus on thinking about new paradigms in autism and neurodiversity. We will read the article titled “Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves From the Pathology Paradigm\,” by Nick Walker (from Loud Hands: Autistic People\, Speaking [2012]) and the introduction to Autistic Disturbances (2018) by Julia Miele Rodas. If time permits\, the discussion will also include Mad at School: Rhetorics of Disability and Academic Life (2011) by Margaret Price\, which tackles mental illness/health\, college students/faculty\, psychology\, mentally disabled persons\, personal narratives\, communication\, and stereotypes. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82480745298?pwd=a3RkcUVKaWJoN0dEUkZPQjFQWVN1dz09
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-shifting-paradigms-around-neurodiversity/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210126T211651Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: An Expansive Rebellion: Feminism and Social Revolt in Chile
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89256077958?pwd=Mlp2MWFNVENGRTNmZXFIb2k0WE5rZz09\nZoom Room Password: chile \nFEMINISMS FROM BELOW\, AND TOWARDS THE SOUTH \nThis speaker series welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent. \nFIRST TALK: An Expansive Rebellion: Feminism and Social Revolt in Chile \nIn October 2019\, Chile experienced its largest social revolt since the return to democracy in 1990. The mobilization\, which began as a spontaneous reaction to protest against a 0.30 USD rise in the Santiago transport fare\, soon after became a widespread outburst against the precarious and unjust conditions that affect the majority of the population after almost fifty years of life under a neoliberal regime. Throughout Chile\, high school and university students\, young precarious professionals\, residents of peripheral neighborhoods\, sectors of a fragile and unstable “middle class\,” soccer hooligans (a symbol of popular and stigmatized youth)\, qualified salaried workers and unqualified\, retirees and older adults\, office workers\, and app workers\, among others\, joined together in mass demonstrations. \nAs an immediate antecedent to this revolt in Chile\, there had been a recent emergence of a new wave of the feminist movement that has since caused a general awareness of sexist violence\, sexual abuse\, and the need for an abortion law\, issues that today occupy the center of social debate. One can see the underground work that Chilean feminism has carried out for many years and that has gained symbolic capital – this is key to understanding how it has moved from private malaise to collective revolt today. Feminism has acted in Chile as an expansive rebellion\, starting with women and sexual dissidents and has advanced towards the politicization of broad social sectors\, preparing the conditions for mass revolt. \nFerretti and Dragnic co-published the article “Revolt in Chile: Life Against Capital” in Viewpoint last February 2020. \nPierina Ferretti\, Sociologist and Doctoral Candidate in Latin American Studies at the University of Chile\, Researcher with Fundación Nodo XXI \nMia Dragnic García\, Sociologist and Doctoral Candidate in Latin American Studies at the University of Chile\, Professor at the Metropolitan University of Education Science \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB History Department\, UCSB Feminist Studies Department\, UCSD Latin American Studies Program\, and UCSD Institute for Arts and Humanities \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89256077958?pwd=Mlp2MWFNVENGRTNmZXFIb2k0WE5rZz09\nZoom Room Password: chile
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-an-expansive-rebellion-feminism-and-social-revolt-in-chile/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Troy Araiza Kokinis":MAILTO:taraizakokinis@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210208T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
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SUMMARY:Talk: Gendered Violence and Financialization of Social Reproduction: A Feminist Perspective On Debt
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nFEMINISMS FROM BELOW\, AND TOWARDS THE SOUTH \nThis speaker series welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent. \nSECOND TALK: Gendered Violence and Financialization of Social Reproduction: A Feminist Perspective On Debt \nThe presentation will focus on the relationship and intersection between sexist violence and economic violence\, specifically the financialization of life and the increase in sexist violence. It will highlight the Latin American feminist movement’s struggles against debt as articulated in the tactic of the March 8 International Women’s Day Strike and in Argentina’s Ni Una Menos (Not One More) movement. \nSee Lucía’s articles “Debt and the Violence of Property” (Verso 2020) and “A feminist perspective on the battle over property” (Feminist Review 2020)\, both co-authored with Veronica Gago. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB History Department\, UCSB Feminist Studies Department\, UCSB Latin American and Iberian Studies\, UCSD Latin American Studies Program\, UCSD Critical Gender Studies\, and UCSD Institute for Arts and Humanities \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-gendered-violence-and-financialization-of-social-reproduction-a-feminist-perspective-on-debt/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Troy Araiza Kokinis":MAILTO:taraizakokinis@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210120T223320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210208T185113Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Social Media and the Shape of "Man"
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/85893482888 \nInspired by Cho’s ethnographic work with queer of color users of the platform Tumblr and using the Tumblr presence of Filipinx transfeminine visual and performance artist Mark Aguhar as a recurring touchstone\, this work-in-progress talk’s provocation is that the assumptive ways in which a social media platform “should” be designed—singular identity\, linear text exchanges\, direct messaging\, traversable connections\, and more—in fact instantiate a model of “Man” that can be traced back to the epistemological violences of European colonialism. Relying on Sylvia Wynter’s invocation of the idea of homo oeconomicus as well as Lisa Lowe’s historical analysis of the colonial-era origins of the modern liberal subject\, this talk excavates the assumptions of the specific manner in which “Man” is instantiated online and offers design examples that resist this logic\, inviting us to imagine digital sociality from a standpoint of interdependence instead of the stance of the assumptive liberal individual. \nAlexander Cho is a media scholar\, digital design researcher\, critical theorist\, and pop culture geek. He teaches classes at UCSB on Asian Americans in media as well as on gender and sexuality. His research combines critical race theory\, queer theory\, design thinking\, and ethnography to explore how marginalized populations use social media as a tool for self-expression and social change and explores how social media contain values and power structures built into their design. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Department of Asian American Studies \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/85893482888
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-social-media-and-the-shape-of-man/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Strongmen: From Mussolini to Trump
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nWhat do strongman leaders across a century have in common? Why do people continue to follow them\, despite the destruction they cause? Drawing on her new book\, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present\, Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses the playbook of corruption\, virility\, propaganda\, and violence they utilize\, how people have resisted authoritarians over a century\, and what we can do to strengthen democracy in America and around the world. Audience Q&A will follow. \n\n\nRuth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She writes frequently for CNN and other news and analysis sites on fascism\, authoritarian leaders\, propaganda\, and threats to democracy around the world and how to counter them. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series\, the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment\, and the UCSB Italian Studies Program \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n\n\n  \n\nHOMBRES FUERTES: DE MUSSOLINI A TRUMP \n¿Qué tienen en común los líderes denominados como hombres fuertes a lo largo del siglo pasado? ¿Por qué la gente continúa siguiéndolos\, a pesar de la destrucción que causan? Basándose en su nuevo libro\, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present\, Ruth Ben-Ghiat analiza el manual de la corrupción\, la virilidad\, la propaganda\, la violencia que utilizan\, cómo la gente ha resistido a los autoritarios durante un siglo y qué podemos hacer para fortalecer la democracia en Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo. \n\nRuth Ben-Ghiat es profesora de Historia y Estudios Italianos en la Universidad de Nueva York. Escribe con frecuencia para CNN y otros sitios de noticias y análisis sobre fascismo\, líderes autoritarios\, propaganda y amenazas a la democracia en todo el mundo y cómo contrarrestarlas. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y la Dotación Conmemorativa Harry Girvetz de IHC y Programa de Estudios Italianos de UCSB \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito; Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-strongmen-from-mussolini-to-trump/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T164500
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
DESCRIPTION:Click here for a 20% publisher’s discount on The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus \n  \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) and Debra Blumenthal (History) about Reynolds’ new book\, The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus. Audience Q&A will follow. \nThe Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us\, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic\, Old Catalan\, Castilian\, Hebrew\, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco\, Algeria\, Tunisia\, Egypt\, Lebanon\, and Syria. \nWhile the cultural achievements of medieval Muslim Spain have been the topic of a large number of scholarly and popular publications in recent decades\, what may arguably be its most enduring contribution – music – has been almost entirely neglected. The overarching purpose of this work is to elucidate as clearly as possible the many different types of musical interactions that took place in medieval Iberia and the complexity of the various borrowings\, adaptations\, hybridizations\, and appropriations involved. \nDwight Reynolds is Professor of Arabic Language & Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara and affiliate faculty member of the Department of Music\, Department of Theater and Dance\, the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies\, and the Comparative Literature Program. He is the author of Arab Folklore: A Handbook (2007) and Heroic Poets\, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (1995). He is the editor and co-author of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture (2015) and co-editor\, with Scott Marcus and Virginia Danielson\, of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Vol. VI\, the Middle East and Central Asia (2002). He is also section editor for and contributing author to The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: the Post-Classical Period  (Part IV: Popular Prose; 2006). In 2010 with his team he published the online digital archive housing field recordings\, field notes\, historical background\, Arabic texts\, English translations\, photographs and a special “virtual performance” mode for the Arabic oral epic poem Sirat Bani Hilial. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-musical-heritage-of-al-andalus/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T150000
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SUMMARY:AIIC 2021 8th Annual Symposium: Native Feminisms
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThe Eighth Annual AIIC Symposium\, “Native Feminisms: Centering American Indian and Indigenous Land and People\,” seeks to focus Native feminisms by privileging the knowledge of Native women\, girls\, trans\, non-binary\, and two spirit people. As Mishuana Goeman shows\, drawing attention to embodied experience\, positionality\, and spatiality foregrounds relationships between bodies\, minds\, spirits\, and lands as methods of knowledge creation. Relevant topics to broader discussions of Native feminisms include: embodiment\, futurity\, spatiality\, memory\, trauma\, ecological relationality\, community knowledge\, emergence\, collective power\, ceremony\, decolonization\, education\, reclamation\, and felt theory. \nThe AIIC Symposium seeks to explore how Native feminist cartographies help us remap and reimagine the relationship between people\, kin\, communities\, temporality\, and the land. We hope to raise questions about public space and protest\, environment and ecological knowledge\, storytelling\, violence\, education\, Indigeneity\, decolonial thinking\, gender\, and multiraciality. We embrace non-linear\, relational understandings of time\, and presenters will address historical issues of cartography\, contemporary remappings\, and embodied relationships to history\, knowledge creation\, and the land\, as well as the intersection of such topics. \nKeynote Speakers: Mishuana Goeman and Laura Harjo \nDr. Mishuana Goeman\, Tonawanda Band of Seneca\, is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies\, Chair of American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program and Associate Director of American Indian Studies Research Center at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She received her doctorate from Stanford University’s Modern Thought and Literature and was a UC Presidential Post-doctoral fellow at Berkeley. Her research involves thinking through colonialism\, geography and literature in ways that generate anti-colonial tools in the struggle for social justice. Her book\, Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013) was honored at the American Association for Geographic Perspectives on Women and a finalist for best first book from NAISA. “The Spectacle of Originary Moments: Terrance Malick’s the New World\,” is in progress with the Indigenous Film Series\, University of Nebraska Press. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as American Quarterly\, Critical Ethnic Studies\, Settler Colonial Studies\, Wicazo Sa\, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies\, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies\, Transmotion\, and American Indian Cultures and Research Journal. She has guest edited journal volumes on Native Feminisms and another on Indigenous Performances. \nDr. Harjo is a Mvskoke scholar teaching Indigenous Planning\, Community Development\, and Indigenous Feminisms. She is an Associate Professor in Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She was raised in Sapulpa by Mvskoke parents that were active in Mvskoke community and Muscogee (Creek) Nation politics; Harjo is a lifelong student of emancipatory community processes. Dr. Harjo earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Southern California\, and her research and teaching centers on Indigenous spatialities\, community caretaking\, Indigenous feminist community planning praxis\, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives and anti-violence\, artivism and community engaged knowledge production. She is the author of Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (University of Arizona Press\, 2019)\, which employs Mvskoke epistemologies\, and Indigenous feminisms to grapple with a community praxis of futurity. \nCosponsored by the American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group (AIIC RFG); Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC); UCSB American Indian Graduate Student Alliance (AIGSA); UCSB American Indian and Indigenous Student Association (AIISA); UCSB Associated Students; UCSB Department of English; UCSB Graduate Division; UCSB Graduate Student Association (GSA); UCSB Office of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aiic-2021-8th-annual-symposium-native-feminisms/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Elemental City: Ecology\, Media and Narratives of Crisis in Postcolonial Calcutta
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how the cultural politics of elemental media influence crisis narratives produced in relation to urban change. Taking Calcutta as a case study\, Doctoral Candidate Somak Mukherjee argues that the crisis of postcolonial cities has a distinct ecological imaginary\, borne of tension between mediated pairings of elements and more typical civic imaginaries such as civility\, citizenship\, community\, development\, or progress. Four examples of elements—earth\, air\, water\, and fire—are used as representative figures to explore how their cultural registers comment on questions of method\, archives\, and media in thinking about urban space. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Surojit Kayal. \nThe meeting is open to all but we do ask you to register to attend so that we can spend our time in the meeting as productively as possible. Please register by February 18. After you’ve registered\, you will receive a Zoom invitation as well as a 1\,000-word document introducing the research that we ask that you read before the meeting. Please see the information sheet “Sustainability and the New Human IHC Research Focus Group Meetings” for more information about this and the structure of the meeting. \nSomak Mukherjee is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UCSB. His interests lie at the intersection of Environmental Media and Criticism\, Urban History\, and Postcolonial Studies. Somak’s writings have appeared in various print and digital publications in India\, including Huffington Post\, Scroll\, The Citizen\, Humanities Underground\, and Anandabazar Patrika (ABP). \nSurojit Kayal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at UCSB. His interests include environmental media\, science and technology studies\, digital culture\, and postcolonial studies. Surojit has written previously on environmental communities\, digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group \nImage: The mouth of the Sealdah bound tunnel as can be seen from the Esplanade station of East West Metro in Kolkata\, November 2020. Image Courtesy: Metro Railways Kolkata
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-elemental-city-ecology-media-and-narratives-of-crisis-in-postcolonial-calcutta/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T170000
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nWhile more people are incarcerated in the United States than in any other nation in the history of the western world\, the prison is but one (comparatively) small part of a vast carceral landscape. The 600\,000 people released each year join nearly 5 million people already on probation or parole\, 12 million who are processed through a county jail\, 19 million U.S. adults estimated to have a felony conviction\, and the staggering 79 million Americans with a criminal record. But the size of the U.S. carceral state is second in consequence to its reach. Incarcerated people are greeted by more than 48\,000 laws\, policies and administrative sanctions upon release that limit their participation in the labor and housing markets\, in the culture and civic life of the city\, and even within their families. They are subject to rules other people are not subject to\, and shoulder responsibilities other people are not expected to shoulder. They live in a “supervised society\,” a hidden social world we’ve produced through our laws\, policies and everyday practices\, and in fact\, occupy an alternate form of political membership—what Professor Reuben Jonathan Miller calls “carceral citizenship.” \nJoin Professor Miller as he examines the afterlife of mass incarceration\, attending to how U.S. criminal justice policy has changed the social life of the city and altered the contours of American Democracy one (most often poor black American) family at a time. Drawing on ethnographic data collected across three iconic American cities—Chicago\, Detroit\, and New York—we will explore what it means to live in a supervised society and how we might find our way out. Audience Q&A will follow. \nReuben Jonathan Miller is an Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA). His research examines life at the intersections of race\, poverty\, crime control\, and social welfare policy. He is the author of Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (February 2021)\, based on 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated men\, women\, their families\, partners\, and friends. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n  \nA MEDIO CAMINO: RAZA\, CASTIGO Y LA VIDA POSTERIOR AL ENCARCELAMIENTO MASIVO \nSi bien hay más personas encarceladas en los Estados Unidos que en cualquier otra nación en la historia del mundo occidental\, la prisión es solo una (comparativamente) pequeña parte de un vasto paisaje carcelario. Las 600\,000 personas liberadas cada año se unen a casi 5 millones de personas que ya están en libertad condicional\, 12 millones que son procesados ​​a través de una cárcel del condado\, 19 millones de adultos estadounidenses que se estima tienen una condena por delito grave\, y los 79 millones de estadounidenses con antecedentes penales. Sin embargo\, el tamaño del estado carcelario de EE. UU. es solo el segundo problema. El primero es: las personas encarceladas son recibidas por más de 48.000 leyes\, políticas y sanciones administrativas tras su liberación que limitan su participación en los mercados laborales y de vivienda\, en la cultura y la vida cívica de la ciudad e incluso dentro de sus familias. Estos individuos están sujetos a reglas a las que otras personas no lo están\, y no se espera que asuman responsabilidades como el resto de la población. Viven en una “sociedad supervisada”\, un mundo social oculto que hemos producido a través de nuestras leyes\, políticas y prácticas cotidianas y\, de hecho\, ocupan una forma alternativa de membresía política\, lo que el profesor Reuben Jonathan Miller llama “ciudadanía carcelaria”. \nÚnase al profesor Miller mientras examina el más allá del encarcelamiento masivo\, atendiendo a cómo la política de justicia penal de EE. UU. ha cambiado la vida social de la ciudad y ha alterado los contornos de la democracia estadounidense\, una familia (la mayoría de las veces afroamericana pobre) a la vez. Basándonos en datos etnográficos recopilados en tres ciudades estadounidenses emblemáticas\, Chicago\, Detroit y Nueva York\, exploraremos lo que significa vivir en una sociedad supervisada y cómo encontrar la salida. Seguirán las preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia. \nReuben Jonathan Miller es profesor asistente en la Escuela de Administración de Servicios Sociales (SSA) de la Universidad de Chicago. Su investigación examina la vida en las intersecciones de raza\, pobreza\, control del crimen y políticas de bienestar social. Es el autor de Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (febrero de 2021)\, basado en 15 años de investigación y práctica con hombres\, mujeres\, sus familias\, parejas y amigos que se encuentran actual y anteriormente en la cárcel. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC  \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito; Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-halfway-home-race-punishment-and-the-afterlife-of-mass-incarceration/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T173000
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SUMMARY:Talk: We Are Charrúa Women: From Negation to Re-Existence In Our Body-Territory
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nCharrúa women have gone through dispossession\, exclusion\, and negation that left marks on their collective memory and body-territory. This genocidal process did not end in 19th-century Uruguay\, but continues today and manifests itself every time that institutions or civil society denies their existence as an indigenous people. For fifteen years\, together with Charrúa sisters from Argentina\, Charrúa women from Uruguay have been working to demolish hegemonic narratives of the market and state. As subjects of legal right\, they are reconfiguring their existence and re-existence in their great ancestral-territory-body. This collective search has led Mónica Michelena to academic spaces. \nIn 2011\, Michelena began an investigation with rural Charrúa women in Uruguay’s interior to question the nation-state’s devices of invisibility and to expose counter-memories as part of an attempt to disarm the social and symbolic representation of their extinction. Through a methodological approach based on collaborative ethnography\, Michelena’s research aims to rearm the great quillapí of memory. The metaphor of quillapí – a leather cape made from patchwork – implies that each woman is the bearer of a small piece of memory and\, among all\, they are sewing together its scraps. Down this path\, Charrúa women began to slowly gain recognition from the Uruguayan feminist movement\, in a slow process of internal decolonization. \nMónica Michelena is Secretary of the Charrúa Nation Council and former Advisor on Indigenous Affairs for Uruguay’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. \nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series and is cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB History Department\, UCSB Feminist Studies Department\, UCSB Latin American and Iberian Studies\, UC San Diego Latin American Studies Program\, UCSD Critical Gender Studies\, and UCSD Institute for Arts and Humanities \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-we-are-charrua-women-from-negation-to-re-existence-in-our-body-territory/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Troy Araiza Kokinis":MAILTO:taraizakokinis@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210302T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210302T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Disability Justice Conversation
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nJoin Gary White\, UCSB’s Disabled Students Program\, Eric Kruger\, UCSB’s Disabled Students Program\, Afiya Browne\, UCSB’s Multicultural Center\, Sam del Castillo\, Graduate Division and graduate student\, and Shanna Killeen\, Disability Studies Initiative RFG\, for a conversation about accessibility and intersectional justice. This conversation will discuss information\, tools\, and resources for creating intentional and accessible spaces and community engagement. This conversation also aims to help us think through what this moment of remote work means for our communities. How do graduate students navigate access in an already inaccessible world? Our hope is to have an impactful conversation about resources and accessibility as a foundation and not an add on\, and to help us imagine how creating accessible spaces benefits us all. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Muticultural Center\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Graduate Division\, and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-disability-justice-conversation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sam del Castillo":MAILTO:diversitypeer@graddiv.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T164500
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Patrick McCray (History) and Alan Liu (English) about McCray’s new book\, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture. Audience Q&A will follow. \nDespite C. P. Snow’s warning\, in 1959\, of an unbridgeable chasm between the humanities and the sciences\, engineers and scientists of that era enthusiastically collaborated with artists to create visually and sonically interesting multimedia works. This new artwork emerged from corporate laboratories\, artists’ studios\, publishing houses\, art galleries\, and university campuses and it involved some of the biggest stars of the art world. Less famous and often overlooked were the engineers and scientists who contributed time\, technical expertise\, and aesthetic input to these projects. These figures included the rocket engineer-turned-artist Frank J. Malina\, MIT’s Gyorgy Kepes\, and Billy Klüver\, a Swedish-born engineer at Bell Labs who helped establish the New York–based group Experiments in Art and Technology. This book restores the role of technologists to the foreground\, explores the era’s hybrid creative culture\, and recounts the many ways that artists\, engineers\, and curators have collaborated over the past fifty years. Making Art Work shows that the borders of art and technology over the past half century are anything but fixed. Just as striking is that the original ideals and ambitions that animated the 1960s-era art-and-technology movement have not faded. Today\, creativity\, collaborations\, and interdisciplinary research are promoted by academic and corporate leaders alike. What emerges is a long history of artists and technologists who have repeatedly built new creative communities in which they can exercise imagination\, invention\, and expertise. \nW. Patrick McCray is a professor in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara where his research\, writing\, and teaching focus on the histories of technology and science. Originally trained as a scientist\, he is the author or editor of six books. McCray’s 2013 book\, The Visioneers: How an Elite Group of Scientists Pursued Space Colonies\, Nanotechnologies\, and a Limitless Future\, won the Watson Davis Prize in 2014 from the History of Science Society as the “best book written for a general audience.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-making-art-work-how-cold-war-engineers-and-artists-forged-a-new-creative-culture/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210225T185348Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Kings and Cripples in the Arthurian World
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87492220092?pwd=RExPbnl0N3d0ZVR2ZGpEdkJ1cHdPQT09 \nWhile the lived reality of disability in the Middle Ages was surely a wretched one\, at the same time we encounter persistent associations between disabled and royal or aristocratic bodies in medieval culture\, its imagery and narratives. Nowhere is this truer than in the Arthurian world\, at whose core there lies a powerful but immobile figure\, the Rich Fisher King. This talk looks at such linkage through Arthurian texts and illustrated manuscripts\, especially the vast Lancelot Prose Cycle. \nChristopher Baswell is the Acting Chair of the Department of English and the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English at Barnard College. He is also Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and the UCSB English Department Early Modern Center \nZoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87492220092?pwd=RExPbnl0N3d0ZVR2ZGpEdkJ1cHdPQT09
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-kings-and-cripples-in-the-arthurian-world/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Cannabis and South Asia
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09 \nHistorical scholarship now conceives empire as a webbed uneven field of power relations and a multispecies enterprise. In other words\, the anxious and breathless struggle of European imperialism to sustain itself subjected human\, plant\, animal\, and insect bodies to its ambition to govern through logics of colonial difference. This paper argues that the cannabis plant in South Asia\, in the nineteenth century\, while being a subject of British revenue systems transformed into a race-d and gendered mode of explaining anticolonial insurgency by South Asian rebels. The intoxicating substance of the plant\, in the discursive logic of empire\, was seen to vitiate Asian bodies against European power. Cannabis also animated other imperial operations like the delegitimization of Indian sovereignty. Using the expansive reach of imperial periodical culture in the nineteenth century\, this paper highlights the Asian and global contexts within which cannabis became an alibi for rebellion or violence against empire. \nUtathya Chattopadhyaya is Assistant Professor of History at the UC Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and studies the history of modern South Asia\, British imperialism\, and agrarian commodities. His work has appeared in the South African Historical Journal\, Historical Reflections\, and Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for our Times. He is currently writing a monograph on cannabis and empire in British India. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Department of Asian American Studies \nZoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-cannabis-and-south-asia/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210303T200531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210304T225118Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: A Wave of Difference: Language Expression in the Argentine Feminist Imaginary
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nIn the context of a disproportionate increase in sexual violence against cis\, trans\, and transvestite women since 2015\, Argentine feminisms have prefigured the untimely irruption of public space in both process and form. The movements’ interventions not only impact the social conditions and the epistemic tools for popular intelligibility of language expression ​​of gender violence\, through an innovative use of communication technologies and social networks\, but also articulate\, from the multidimensionality in which inequality operates by gender and more broadly\, a transversal resistance to the oppressive characteristics that would accompany the neoliberal turn produced by public policy under President Mauricio Macri’s corporate governance mandate (2015-2019). This new state of public attention and mass representation allowed a reorganization of desires to spread and multiply across territories\, professional careers\, bodies\, and communities throughout the country\, which would forever transform the contours of a traditionally instituted political subject\, expanding its affective capacity to rework new forms of connection between the personal and the political\, extending the singular opportunity of its criticism to all spheres of social organization. In this way\, local feminisms constructed networks of theoretical exchange and practical solidarity between cis and trans women\, which to this day connect\, in a complex way and not without tension\, a concert of experiences that link and incorporate radical differences and specific demands of the sectors of working women\, ecologists\, diverse functional\, queer\, unionists\, anti-racists\, piqueteras\, educators\, prostitutes and racialized\, among many others\, in a structural critique of the functioning capitalist economic order. \nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series\, which welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB History Department\, UCSB Feminist Studies Department\, UCSB Latin American and Iberian Studies\, UC San Diego Latin American Studies Program\, UCSD Critical Gender Studies\, and UCSD Institute for Arts and Humanities \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-a-wave-of-difference-language-expression-in-the-argentine-feminist-imaginary/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Troy Araiza Kokinis":MAILTO:taraizakokinis@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210309T193005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T193144Z
UID:10000538-1615550400-1615557600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Blood Files: Epidemic\, Medium\, Milieu
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nEpidemics make us keenly aware of our multispecies distributions: of changes to our microbial makeup\, of the mediums (body fluids to the elements) that enable transmission. While our body makes us aware of fevers and aches\, we need technical mediation beyond the everyday thermometer to track and understand changing microbial-human relations. Epidemic media—a range of technologies\, microscopes to PCR machines—are the subject of Bishnupriya Ghosh’s book\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. Drawing on two research sites thousands of miles apart yet embedded in the global biomedical complex—a retrovirus laboratory at the University of Washington\, Seattle\, and a modest clinical point of care at the Humsafar offices in Mumbai—Ghosh considers how the ordinary technology of the “blood file” (samples\, data\, and pictures) makes the medium intelligible as a milieu. \nBishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of Global Studies and English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her first two books\, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers University Press\, 2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (Duke University Press\, 2011)\, addressed cultures of globalization. Her recent work includes the co-edited Routledge Companion to Media and Risk (Routledge\, 2020) and a new monograph on viral emergence\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-blood-files-epidemic-medium-milieu/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T134500
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210310T182837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210310T183000Z
UID:10000539-1615811400-1615815900@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Designing Disability
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nWe will be discussing Professor Elizabeth Guffey’s introduction and chapter 1 to her latest book\, Designing Disability (Bloomsbury\, 2018). A Professor of Art & Design History\, and Director of the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art\, Criticism and Theory at State University of New York at Purchase\, Professor Guffey co-edited Making Disability Modern (Bloomsbury\, 2020) and is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Design and Culture (Routledge). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Comparative Literature \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-designing-disability/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T150000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210208T194505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210318T165215Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Annual Colloquium: Global/Premodern/Race
DESCRIPTION:Register by emailing global.premodern.race@gmail.com by March 19\, 2021 \nThis symposium brings together scholars working in Iberian\, Middle Eastern\, and Medieval Studies to engage in a critical discussion concerning race—reevaluating both its utility as a category of analysis in the premodern world and how it has structured medieval and early modern studies as academic fields. \nParticipants include:\nPAMELA PATTON (Art History\, Princeton University)\nM. LINDSAY KAPLAN (English\, Georgetown University)\nHANNAH BARKER (History\, Arizona State University)\nMOHAMAD BALLAN (History\, SUNY Stonybrook)\nAMBEREEN DADABHOY (Literature\, Harvey Mudd College)\nJOSH COHEN (Committee on the Study of Religion\, Harvard University)\nABDULHAMIT ARVAS (English\, University of Pennsylvania)\nTERENCE KEEL (African American Studies & Institute for Society and Genetics\, UCLA)\nKATHY LAVEZZO (English\, University of Iowa) \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; Medieval Studies; Early Modern Center\, English Department; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; College of Letters & Science; History Department; and Latin American and Iberian Studies \nRegister by emailing global.premodern.race@gmail.com by March 19\, 2021
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/medieval-studies-annual-colloquium-global-premodern-race/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="global.premodern.race@gmail.com":MAILTO:global.premodern.race@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210316T182204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210319T161823Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan\, 1905-1932
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nIn this RFG talk\, Joshua Fogel will present on “Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan\, 1905-1932.” \nJoshua Fogel is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair at York University\, Toronto. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-lingvo-internacia-the-esperanto-movement-in-china-and-japan-1905-1932/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Transregional East Asia,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group":MAILTO:wfleming@eastasian.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T130000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210120T220015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T003045Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED | Living Democracy Talk: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED \n\nArtist and filmmaker\, Isaac Julien\, and writer and curator\, Mark Nash\, will screen excerpts from Julien’s film “Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass” in a presentation that will explore the importance of looking to history and biography to articulate contemporary cultural movements. Isaac Julien’s moving image practice draws from and comments on a range of artistic disciplines including film\, theatre\, photography and performance.  \nJulien is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Nash is a Professor of Arts at UC Santa Cruz where they run the Isaac Julien Lab\, a platform for the innovation of visual and sonic languages for production and the critical reception of moving image\, video art\, and installation work by examining historical and contemporary art practice. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \n\nImage: Isaac Julien\, The North Star (Lessons of the Hour)\, 2019. Courtesy of the Artist\, Metro Pictures New York\, and Victoria Miro London/Venice \n  \nLECCIONES DE LA HORA—FREDERICK DOUGLASS \nEl artista y cineasta Isaac Julien y el escritor y curador Mark Nash proyectarán extractos de la película de Julien “Lecciones de la hora—Frederick Douglass” en una presentación que explorará la importancia de mirar la historia y la biografía para articular los movimientos culturales contemporáneos. La práctica de la imagen en movimiento de Isaac Julien se basa en y comenta sobre una variedad de disciplinas artísticas que incluyen cine\, teatro\, fotografía y actuación. \nJulien es Profesor Distinguido de Artes y Nash es Profesor de Artes en la UC Santa Cruz donde dirigen el Isaac Julien Lab\, una plataforma para la innovación de lenguajes visuales y sonoros para la producción y la recepción crítica de imagen en movimiento\, videoarte\, y trabajos de instalación examinando la práctica del arte histórico y contemporáneo. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment  \nImagen: Isaac Julien\, The North Star (Lessons of the Hour)\, 2019. Cortesía del artista\, Metro Pictures New York y Victoria Miro London / Venice
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-lessons-of-the-hour/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T110000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210310T220806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T204735Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Meeting: Embracing Ecological Uncertainty through Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Uncertainty is a central psychological dimension of the ecological crisis. The science of climate change brings into view widely divergent scenarios; the discrepancy between these more or less catastrophic visions of the future undermines our ontological security (in Anthony Giddens’s terminology). Dr. Caracciolo argues that literary narrative has an important role to play in cultivating readers’ ability to live with uncertainty. He describes this process as a shift from a primarily negative understanding of uncertainty (as something to be avoided at all costs) to a more complex\, nuanced appreciation. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Sowon Park. \nThe meeting is open to all but we do ask you to register to attend so that we can spend our time in the meeting as productively as possible. Please register by April 15. After you’ve registered\, you will receive a Zoom invitation as well as a 1\,000-word document introducing the research that we ask that you read before the meeting. Please see the information sheet “Sustainability and the New Human IHC Research Focus Group Meetings” for more information about this and the structure of the meeting. \nMarco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. He is the author of five books\, including most recently Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene (University of Virginia Press\, 2021). \nSowon Park is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Together with Professor Sangwon Suh\, she is one of the conveners of the Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-meeting-embracing-ecological-uncertainty-through-narrative/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sustainability and the New Human RFG":MAILTO:apetterssonpeeker@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T164500
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210309T175642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210505T183436Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Violentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Ben Olguín (English\, UCSB) and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (Social and Cultural Analysis\, NYU) about Olguín’s new book\, Violentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature. Audience Q&A will follow. \nViolentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature\, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities\, or Latinidades\, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of violence studies known as violentología\, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence\, this book adapts the neologism “violentology” as a heuristic device and epistemic category to map the salience of violence in Latina/o history\, life\, and culture in the U.S. and globally. Based on one hundred primary texts and archival documents from an expansive range of Latina/o communities – and featuring multiple generations of Latinx combatants\, wartime non-combatants\, and “peacetime” civilians – Violentologies articulates a contrapuntal assessment of the inchoate\, contradictory\, and complex range of violence-based Latina/o ontologies and epistemologies\, and corresponding negotiations of power\, or ideologies\, pursuant to an expansive and meta-critical Pan-Latina/o methodology and\, ultimately\, an anti-identitarian Post-Latina/o paradigm. \nBen Olguín is the Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English\, and Director of the Global Latinidades Project\, at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University\, and is a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow\, and National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellow. In addition to articles published in Cultural Critique\, American Literary History\, Aztlán\, Frontiers\, Biography\, MELUS\, and Nepantla\, Olguín is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o History\, Culture\, and Politics (University of Texas Press\, 2010). \nMaría Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis in the College of Arts and Science at New York University. She is the author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press\, 2016); Des/posesión: Género\, territorio y luchas por la autodeterminación (PUEG-UNAM\, 2014); Aunt Lute’s Anthology of U.S. Women’s Writing\, Volume II (Aunt Lute Press\, 2008); The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press\, 2003). Saldaña-Portillo is the recipient of numerous accolades\, including Casa de Las Americas Literary Prize for the Best Book in Studies of Latinos in the United States; John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies from the American Studies Association; Best Book Award from the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-violentologies-violence-identity-and-ideology-in-latina-o-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T164500
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20210127T211030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T162408Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Swati Rana (English) and Stephanie L. Batiste (English) about Rana’s new book\, Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream. Audience Q&A will follow. \nA vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial\, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures\, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960\, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall\, Ameen Rihani\, Dalip Singh Saund\, José Garcia Villa\, and José Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream\, from individualism to imperialism\, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation\, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood\, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison\, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven. \nSwati Rana is Assistant Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in twentieth-century U.S. literature\, comparative ethnic literature\, and transnational American studies. Her research has appeared in American Literary History\, American Literature\, and Journal of Asian American Studies\, and her creative writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, Granta\, Crazyhorse\, The Asian American Literary Review\, Wasafiri\, and elsewhere.  \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-race-characters-ethnic-literature-and-the-figure-of-the-american-dream/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T160000
DTSTAMP:20260601T193844
CREATED:20200211T180047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210322T202115Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster
DESCRIPTION:CONFERENCE REGISTRATION \nThe interdisciplinary virtual conference “Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster” will take place on Friday\, April 30\, 2021 at 9:00am-4:00pm\, with an international slate of speakers representing a variety of disciplines who will share their insights on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. \nThirty-five years after the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl\, the interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster considers its afterlife and reverberations in various disciplines\, including culture and the arts. Situated at a watershed moment during the Cold War\, Chernobyl has spawned an unprecedented quantity of global responses from scientists\, writers\, filmmakers\, and artists\, and it has become a key moment for the global environmental movement. This conference views the accident and its aftermath in the context of broader global ecologies of disaster and considers how catastrophe is coded and understood — or fails to be understood — through the prism of science\, art\, literature\, and film. How do all these disciplines and discourses confront the disaster\, and where do they converge to produce the fiction\, or the truth\, of what we call “Chernobyl”? The conference brings together scholars and experts in Comparative Literature\, History\, Anthropology\, Environmental Studies\, Nuclear Engineering\, Medicine\, Art\, Film\, and Germanic and Slavic Studies. (Rescheduled from April 2020 when it was postponed due to COVID-19.) \nAn associated Carsey-Wolf Center virtual discussion of the award-winning documentary “The Babushkas of Chernobyl\,” with Director Holly Morris\, will take place at 4pm on Thursday\, April 29\, 2021\, before which registered participants can pre-screen the film. \nFILM DISCUSSION REGISTRATION \nSponsored by the College of Letters and Science and the T. A. Barron Environmental Fund. Event partners include the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, and Carsey-Wolf Center. Other sponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Global Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, Environmental Studies\, Cold War Studies\, College of Creative Studies\, and History Department.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/conference-fallout-chernobyl-and-the-ecology-of-disaster/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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